Boxing Day - Books

Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 ...

Come with Australian Geographic on a voyage like no other through our planet’s great habitats to experience what shapes the creatures living there....

From planets made of gas to blazing stars, our Solar System is a place of endless mystery and discovery. This book invites young readers to journey...

From bushfires and floods to earthquakes and tsunamis, extreme weather and sudden changes to the Earth’s surface have shaped our environment for th...

This inspiring book introduces primary-aged children to the big ideas shaping our future. Through engaging topics and clear explanations, readers w...

With stunning images from Australian Geographic's extensive picture library, fun facts about native Australian wildlife and information on the vari...

Explore modern Australian insects, non-insect hexapods and life cycles. Their importance of insects to the ecosystems of our world, and to our own ...

The biggest, fastest, toughest and smartest creatures! What animal runs so fast it goes blind? Which creature had a tongue that weighs as much as a...

Australian English has always been rich in slang and dialect words, many of which – dinkum for example – came out from Great Britain with the convi...

Did you know that coffin rays zap their prey with electricity, or that velvet worms can pin down their victims with slime? Each and every animal ha...

Featuring beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, this book is filled with some of our most wonderful Australian animals. The book includes species nam...

We Build Our Homes is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the natural world’s most skilled builders. Told from the animals’ point of view, eac...

Including its castaway islands, Australia’s perimeter stretches for nearly 60,000 km – enough to lap the equator one and a half times. Of this tall...

There is no official delineation of this expansive area, with no tangible signs or marks to indicate its boundaries - even though it encompasses mi...

Engaging topics that will inspire primary-aged kids to ask questions, experiment and learn about how scientific principles impact the way we live.

Extreme weather events, from bushfires to floods, and sudden geological changes, from earthquakes to tsunamis, have an enormous impact on our plane...